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“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards” – Famous Quotations by American Author Mark Twain

Mark Twain is perhaps the most well-known US writer (Australia Mark Twain Books). Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Samuel Clemens was born in Missouri in November 1835. Clemens died in 1910 at the age of 74 in Connecticut.

Twain is perhaps most famous for his books “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884).

Twain was a gifted writer and humorist and is often quoted in print and in speeches. We have collected here some of his more famous quotations for your reading pleasure.

The Famous Quotes by Mark Twain …

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Man is the only animal that blushes — or needs to.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.

This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.

It were not best that we should all think alike it is the difference of opinion that makes horse races. – from Pudd’nhead Wilson

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

There is no such thing as the Queen’s English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

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